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It’s been more than a week since TD Bank first revealed that its long-planned update to its online and mobile banking systems had run into technical difficulties, and many customer are still unable to access their accounts.
A bank spokesman said Tuesday …

GOP-led states that had been reluctant to expand Medicaid under President Obama are suddenly giving it another look after the Trump administration said last month they can require those on the program to also hold down jobs.
Virginia’s …

President Trump’s new budget envisions eviscerating Obamacare — but it also includes money to fund contentious payments to insurance companies next year, in a move that conservatives say will end up sustaining the struggling law.
The budget allocates …

President Trump’s new budget envisions eviscerating Obamacare — but it also includes money to fund contentious payments to insurance companies next year, in a move that conservatives say will end up sustaining the struggling law.
The budget allocates …

After the school shooting in Florida this week, President Trump vowed to “tackle the difficult issue of mental health.” But the president's proposed budget would cut many programs that provide mental health services. President Trump's proposed …

Gregory James Tuck Sr., a former chef in Indianapolis who is now homeless, says he has been turned away by six different doctors over the last four months while seeking treatment for high blood pressure, insomnia, and, most recently, the flu coursing …

NOTE TO READERS: KHN's First Edition will not be published Feb. 19. Look for it again in your inbox Feb. 20. Here's today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Kaiser Health News:
Pain Hits After Surgery When A Doctor’s …

Changes in laws, greater awareness among employees mean the time has come to consider an update By Karen Whitley
Published: February 16, 2018
If your New Year’s resolution was, finally, to update your employee handbook, keeping that resolution at the top …

When her twin sons turned 18 a year and a half ago, Maine's Medicaid program dropped her health insurance. Wall is considered a "childless adult" in Maine and other states that didn't expand Medicaid, and so she isn't eligible for …

On Monday, the Trump administration released its proposed budget — a blueprint for the kind of world they want to “build.” It included, unsurprisingly, major cuts to programs on which millions of women rely, and continues the year-long attack on women’s …

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WASHINGTON - Republicans have long targeted Planned Parenthood at both the federal and state level as a punching bag, trying to strip taxpayer funding from the nation’s largest abortion provider. But the chain of women’s …

Another day, another attack on Medicaid — and on the poor and working class. According to a little noticed report this week by McClatchy, Arizona, Kansas, Utah, Maine and Wisconsin have appealed to the Trump administration, seeking permission to put …

Take a look at the stories from around our area and world that are making news today.
Paul Ryan says not yet time for political battles on guns: Ashley Killough of CNN writes: "Amid renewed debate over gun control after Wednesday's school …

[The Year End Media Watch]
Outrageous comments are nothing new to the conservative media -- one might even call them a defining characteristic.
The Most Outrageous Comment of the 2009 came when Fox News host Glenn Beck asserted that Obama is a " …

The Affordable Care Act’s success in reducing the number of uninsured owes more to Medicaid than to private health insurance. About 75 million people are now enrolled in Medicaid, a number that has increased by about one-third since the adoption of the …

Donna Wall cares for her three adult autistic children at her home in Lewiston, Maine. It's a full-time job. Sons Christopher and Brandon have frequent outbursts, and the stress of tending to them can be overwhelming.
When her twin sons turned 18 a …

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Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Events & Conferences

The Royal Society of Medicine is once again delighted to host the RSM Aesthetics conference, now in its 10th anniversary year in February 2018. The theme this year is:
Multidisciplinary, evidence-based and patient-centred aesthetics care
The structure of the meeting is to promote peer to peer interaction, and the involvement of both delegate and faculty to inform attendees at all levels of experience and seniority.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
RSM Aesthetics 10 poster prize sponsored by Harley Academy Ltd.
Submission for abstracts, of no more than 300 words based on multidisciplinary, evidence-based and/or patient-centred aesthetics care, is now open until Friday 5 January 2018.
The best abstracts will be selected to present a poster at the conference on Friday 23 February 2018.
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Epigenetic mechanisms — including DNA and histone modifications, as well as regulation by non-coding RNAs — have pivotal roles in the nervous system. Aberrant epigenetic regulation also contributes to pathogenesis in various brain disorders. There are a number of recent ground-breaking discoveries of new features of epigenetic marks and regulation that are enriched in the nervous system, leading to an emerging new field of “neuroepigenetics”. In addition, new discoveries of modification of mRNAs and long non-coding RNAs lead to a new field of “epitranscriptomics”. This meeting will bring together experts and pioneers in studying neuroepigenetics and epitranscriptomics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of epigenetic and epitranscriptomic mechanisms in neural development, ...

The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc. is pleased to bring you GPL University, a series of workshops designed to help practitioners learn how to integrate our comprehensive testing into their practices. When you attend a GPL University workshop, you will find out why our tests may be incredibly valuable to your practice, what particular markers may be the most meaningful to specific patients, and you will learn how to use our tests in tandem to provide your patients with the most personalized treatment plans possible.
Day 1: Organic Acids Testing Workshop
Learn how to use this comprehensive metabolic test in your practice, to help with your most difficult-to-diagnose patients. Find out how the OAT helps you discover the underlying causes of many chronic conditions and hear what kinds of ...

This first congress of the new WPA term will be different in both tone and ambition from international forums of recent years. We aim to face up to the challenges of innovation, novelty and reform to make psychiatry more relevant and effective for people with, and at risk of, mental illness around the world.
This meeting will not be "more of the same".
New ideas, new discoveries, new ways of implementing advances and new technological solutions are fundamental to the work of modern 21st Century psychiatry. The Congress theme of innovation captures this imperative.
Participants will be challenged to consider how effective mental health programs can be co-designed and scaled up across the globe. Psychiatry is part of the public health system, relevant to health ...

This conference is bringing together expert speakers who have information to share with YOU to help you make this complex process better. Expect to hear not only how to do a process, but take away ideas in what helps to meet best practices. What is needed for billing compliance to be value added? How do physician practices integrate into the methods of validating charges? Can you set up a training program that breaks the mold?
Do not delay in securing your hotel and registration spot for your billing compliance colleagues to attend the ONLY conference dedicated to research billing and compliance! Take advantage of the MAGIC of Disney and come early or stay late; or better yet, bring your entire family for a combined business and vacation! Consider all conferences for 2018 and why this ...

Conference Series Ltd, UK extend a warm welcome to the distinguished Nobel laureates, speakers, delegate and Public Health professionals, Nutritionists and Epidemiologists from around the world to UK, for attending 3rd World Congress on Public Health and Nutrition during February 26-28, 2018 in London, UK.
The theme of the conference “Impediment to Exploration of Global Public Health Challenges in globalizing world” aims to bring together leading Public Health Professionals, Nutritionists, Epidemiologists, Healthcare specialists, Health care administrators, Researchers, financial managers, policy makers and Academicians, including Nobel Laureates to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Public Health.
This conference will focus on variety of ...

The 4th Annual Precision CRISPR Congress Boston will unite large pharma, biotech, leading academia and technology providers. Optimize the adoption of CRISPR gene editing and pioneer further advances within biomedical research, drug discovery, R&D and therapeutic development.
Learn from case study presentations to ensure your CRISPR workflows are customized, minimize off-target effects and overcome key delivery challenges. Join the conversation with market leaders and innovators to cut through the avalanche of publications and extract maximum value from CRISPR genome engineering. Be part of the industry-defining meeting to make the most of greatest biotechnological breakthrough in a generation.